The cognate facilitation effect: implications for models of lexical access.

By A. Costa, Alfonso Caramazza, Núria Sebastián-Gallés. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Alignment in second language dialogue (2008, background): “The choice of a different word (less frequent, longer, and phonologically more complex) very likely stems from the fact that ‘prison’ is a cognate word in Spanish (prision) and therefore is more available to her (for evidence of the particularly high availability of cognate words, see Costa, Caramaz”
Bilingual Minds (2009, background): “…bilinguals, cognates can reduce bilingual disadvantages in both the dominant and the nondominant languages (Gollan & Acenas, 2004; Gollan et al., 2007), but such reductions are most robust when bilinguals are tested in their nondominant language (e.g., Costa et al., 2000; Gollan et al., 2007).”
Phonological activation of ignored pictures: Further evidence for a cascade model of lexical access (2005, background): “Despite the merits of such explanation, it is unclear whether it could also account for other effects suggesting cascade processing and especially for the cognate effect observed by Costa et al. (2000).”
What causes the bilingual disadvantage in verbal fluency?: The dual-task analogy (2010, background): “Cognate effects could either reflect the online convergence of activation on shared phonological representations between languages during fluency generation itself (Costa et al., 2000; Gollan and Acenas, 2004), or a joint-language frequency updating mechanism for cognates in bilingual language use (”
Triggered codeswitching: A corpus-based evaluation of the original triggering hypothesis and a new alternative (2006, background): “Firstly, De Bot (1992) and De Bot and Schreuder (1993) suggest that feedback from word forms to lemmas can explain triggering.”
Second Language Proficiency and Cross-Language Lexical Activation (2012, background): “For example, cognate facilitation effects in picture naming have been observed in bilinguals who were immersed in their L2 (e.g., Costa et al., 2000) as well as in bilinguals who were not immersed in their L2 (e.g., Poarch & Van Hell, 2012).”
Lexical and syntactic representations in closely related languages: Evidence from Cantonese–Mandarin bilinguals (2011, background): “If cognates but not noncognates have the same lemma representation, a cognate’s lemma representation would receive additional activation (from its cognate counterpart) relative to noncognates, yielding the facilitation effect observed by Costa et al. (2000).”
Language selectivity is the exception, not the rule: Arguments against a fixed locus of language selection in bilingual speech (2006, background): “…production in the L1 than in the L2 so that processing is apparently selective (Kroll et al., 2000) or less influenced by the other language (Costa et al., 2000), it is also the case that when the L2 is active, either as a required feature of the task, as in cued picture naming, or by the…”
Lexical Access in Bilingual Speech Production: Evidence from Language Switching in Highly Proficient Bilinguals and L2 Learners. (2004, background): “…lexical nodes of both languages of a bilingual receive activation from the semantic system (e.g., Colom e, 2001; Costa, Caramazza, & Sebasti an-Gall es, 2000; Costa, Colom e, Gomez, & Sebasti an-Gall es, in press; De Bot, 1992; Gollan & Kroll, 2001; Hermans, Bongaerts, de Bot, & Schreuder, 1998;…”
The influence of semantic constraints on bilingual word recognition during sentence reading (2011, background): “, Costa et al., 2000; Gollan & Acenas, 2004), and word naming (e.g., Schwartz et al., 2007). These studies have demonstrated that cognates are recognized or produced faster than monolingual matched control words (i.e., the cognate facilitation effect). In Lemhöfer, Dijkstra, and Michel (2004), this ”
The Bilingual Adaptation: How Minds Accommodate Experience (2017, background): “…facilitation and interference effects of the nontarget language on processing in the target language were found for such tasks as picture naming (e.g., Costa et al., 2000) and lexical decision (Bijeljac-babic, Biardeau, & Grainger, 1997; Duyck et al., 2007), making language inhibition unlikely.”
The dynamics of bilingual lexical access (2006, background): “According to the interpretation given to this effect by Costa et al. (2000), the advantage of cognates over non-cognates arises because of a facilitation in the retrieval of the phonological content of the target word.”
Where does the delay in L2 picture naming come from? Psycholinguistic and neurocognitive evidence on second language word production (2011, methodology): “For example, Costa, Caramazza, and Sebastian-Galles ( 2000 ) performed a picture naming experiment with Catalan–Spanish bilinguals, in which the critical manipulation was whether the name of the picture was a cognate (ie, had similar phonology and meaning) in the bilingual's two languages.”